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Guaycuru, n. (and a.)|ˌgwaɪkʊˈruː|
Also Guaicuru.
[a. Sp., a. Tupi guaykuru, f. gwa bird + kuru voracious.]
a. (A member of) a S. American people inhabiting the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.
b. Their language; hence, the family of languages spoken in central S. America by the Guaycuru and other peoples. Also attrib. or as adj.
1822S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer's Acct. Abipones I. 125 The equestrian nations remaining in Chaco, and still formidable to the Spaniards, are the Abipones,..and Oekakakalots, Guaycurus, or Lenguas. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 225/2 The northern frontier however is not exactly determined, as the greater part of it is still in the possession of two independent tribes of natives, the Mbayás and Guaycurús. 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 244 The Terenos..are members of the Guaycuru stock of the Chaco. 1891Nature LIII. 546/2 The Caduveos are known also under the names of Mbayas and Guaycurù; this last is erroneous, it is the Guarany for ‘savage’. 1946A. Métraux in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians I. 201 Concepción, founded in 1585 on the Bermejo River in the very heart of the Chaco among the warlike Frentones or Guaicurú tribes, was for 50 years a military base. 1949H. G. Warren Paraguay iv. 57 Guaycurú chieftains sued for peace soon after Cabeza de Vaca returned to Asunción. 1950J. A. Mason in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 204 Guaicurú was an important linguistic family of the Chaco region, but most of the languages are now extinct, and the surviving groups reduced to three or four with relatively few speakers. 1987M. Ruhlen Guide to World's Languages I. 375 Guaicuruan..: † Abipon, Kadiweu, † Guaicuru, [etc.].
Hence Guaycuˈruan n. and a., (of) the Guaycuru family of languages.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 Linguistic families in America... Guaycuruan, Paraguay R. 1946A. Métraux in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians I. 312 The most bellicose were the members of the Guaicuruan family. Ibid., Chance alone does not account for the fact that all the horsemen of the Chaco were Guaicuruan-speaking Indians. 1987[see *Guaycuru n.]. |